Nidra || HEEJAY

CHAPTER 32

A smile dangled on Johnny's face as he sat in front of them.

"Now, now." He spoke, "Make yourselves very comfortable. Take it easy today, no one is gonna try to attack you here."

They nodded solemnly and pushed themselves into the comfortable sofas, their eyes not leaving the NCT members' faces.

"I'm not going to ask how it's going for you guys because we clearly know how terrible it's been for you all." Yuta said lightly.

We know everything about your troubles.

"We weren't the ones behind the murders." Heeseung said, his mouth curling up in a smile. Yuta raised his eyebrow, "I know, I believe that the Nidra is more sensible than that."

Taking their stares as a signal to continue, Yuta whispered lightly, "We found a complete new person, a little snake hiding as one of your members."

Johnny pulled out a photo, "This is his picture." He handed it to Jay, who took it with eager hands. Upon seeing the person, his eyes narrowed in recognition.

"You know him." Yuta whistled.

Kim Sunoo, Sub Inspector.

"I do." Jay said.

"And do you know that he is a bloody police officer who worked with that little squirt in your group, Ni-ki?" Yuta asked to which Jay repeated, "I do."

"Well, do you know why he's doing all of this?" Yuta pressed more, his voice light like a feather. "Sadly, no." Jay breathed out, "But I believe you can tell me why."

Sometimes, despite having answers, one just wants to ask for more.

Johnny laughed at that, "Yes we can. You see, we sent some people to observe him all day long and apparently, they heard him talking about one of your members."

There could be only one of the Nidra with whom Kim Sunoo was familiar with.

"Ni-ki." Heeseung guessed.

Johnny nodded, "Exactly, Ni-ki. It looks like Sunoo couldn't stop talking about him, mentioning him."

Yuta snorted at this, "It seems like Ni-ki's lover boy is all heartbroken from him leaving. This Sunoo is so obsessed with your boy that he's ready to kill you all for him."

God damn Ni-ki and his wonderful charms.

Johnny smoothened his perfect suit, "We will leave the remaining to you, but make sure you get rid of this Kim Sunoo. We don't want him to go around killing people we know."

Heeseung nodded and stuffed the picture in his pocket. "We will, thank you for your help." The NCT members all smiled at them, signalling them to leave.

As they got up, Xiaojun spoke for the first time, his voice laced with sweetest of all tones, "I hope you will remember our help if you ever try to plot against us."

A sharp reminder, an unusual peace.

It wouldn't take a genius to figure out why NCT were even helping them. It was clear that they did this only to join hands, or more like to form a treaty to not mess with each other.

Jay could clearly feel the burden of their gazes on his back as he smiled over his shoulder, "We will never do that. I hope we can only have good relationships with each other."

Xiaojun grinned, "Oh, I do too."

All three watched the two walk away with the photo, an alliance already being made. After they completely disappeared up the steps, Yuta kept his glass down and spoke,

"What do you think will happen to them?" He asked quaintly. "I don't know, everything depends on how they deal it from here." Johnny stated.

"I hope everything goes well for them." Yuta muttered, "I like the boys, I don't know why." Johnny nodded in agreement, "They seem pretty reasonable to me."

"Taeyong was so sure that we should help them, but it's not like he's always right, isn't it?" Xiaojun spoke, the glass to his lips, "What do you think, Johnny?" The other just smiled, his head leaned back.

"I just hope we chose the winning side." Johnny breathed.

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I spent the entire night thinking about how, one day, the entire of humanity will die.

I'm scared.